Getting Started with OpenVMS - A Guide for New Users

This document is the Table of Contents for the book "Getting Started with OpenVMS: A Guide for New Users" by Michael D. Duffy, published by Digital Press (an imprint of Elsevier Science) in 2003.

The book is structured into two main parts: "A Practical Guide" and "A Technical Introduction," along with appendices for additional resources and a glossary.

Part I: A Practical Guide (Chapters 1-16) covers fundamental aspects of using the OpenVMS operating system, including:

• Introduction and History: Overview of OpenVMS, its evolution from VAX/VMS, support for VAX, Alpha AXP, and Intel Itanium architectures, and its roles as a desktop, multiuser, clustered, network server, and back-end system.
• Core Concepts: Multiuser concepts (processes, jobs, threads, queues), user accounts (quotas, limits, privileges, UICs, identifiers), and logging in/out of the system.
• Command Line and User Environment: Detailed explanation of the Digital Command Language (DCL), including command format, keywords, symbols, lexical functions, comparisons, file and directory management (creation, deletion, renaming, copying, protection, logical names), command procedures, the OpenVMS HELP facility, system security (passwords, access restrictions, audit trail, highwater marking), terminal usage, e-mail (MAIL facility, SMTP, POP3, IMAP), text editors (EDT), and DECnet usage.
• GUI and Personal System: Introduction to the OpenVMS GUI (Common Desktop Environment - CDE, DECwindows), its basics, window manipulation, login process, front panel applications, and managing a personal OpenVMS system (startup, shutdown, software licenses, internet connection considerations).

Part II: A Technical Introduction (Chapters 17-22) delves into more in-depth technical aspects for curious readers, such as:

• System Internals: Processes (expanded definition, memory layout, 32-bit to 64-bit transition), virtual memory management (paging, swapping, page caches, dynamic storage pools), images (executable, shareable, installed).
• File Systems and Networking: Files-11 file system (overview, multivolume sets, terminology, operations, layout, fragmentation), clustering and Galaxy systems (VMSclusters, Distributed Lock Manager), and DECnet details (routing, versions, protocols).

The document also includes appendices for decimal, octal, and hexadecimal notations, additional resources (documentation, FAQ, hobbyist program), default file types, and a glossary.